Provided that I waited a while (I think 15 minutes or more) in between tries, bug 729065 never took more than three or four tries to reproduce. On the other hand, throughout the weekend and a bit this morning (I'm in the eastern United States), I've been trying to reproduce this bug. I haven't been putting enormous effort into this, but I think I've probably tried about 10-15 times, and I've logged out and back in, restarted, and shut down and started back up at various points in the process, while also leaving it on and logged in for over 8 hours before trying. I have still only ever produced this (as you say, impossible- seeming) crash once (when I reported it as this bug).
I have not tried replacing appmenu-gtk with the PPA version in a live CD system; perhaps that would be more effective. Should I try that? Should I send you a virtual machine? It occurs to me that my description of this crash may imply a pattern that is not present. That is, I had thought this crash followed the same pattern as bug 718184 because it was produced in the same was as that crash, and because I had tried to produce it unsuccessfully several times before finally producing it. However, unlike bug 718184, this crash has not been recurring from time to time (or at all, in spite of my efforts). Perhaps the version of appmenu-gtk in your PPA really *does* completely fix bug 718184, and this crash is due to some obscure and rarely-manifesting dbus bug? Or perhaps the mechanism that triggered the crash involved some other package which has since been updated. I'm attaching a current /var/log/dpkg.log, in case it's relevant. (By the way, the issue with the desktop being themed differently between logins appears to have gone away -- now my desktop just always looks like http://launchpadlibrarian.net/65635660/natty-desktop-first- login.png -- which is why I have still not reported that as a bug.) ** Attachment added: "/var/log/dpkg.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/729230/+attachment/1891582/+files/dpkg.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/729230 Title: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in invoke_get_all_properties_in_idle_cb() -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
